He basically just reports on every single rumor he comes across. His anonymous sources always cite, "someone with close ties to x's football program" or "a person with inside knowledge has confirmed"...for all anyone knows, he could just be making all this shit up or he could just be an unwitting pawn that's fed misinformation by some university's PR department.

Every once in a while one of his reports turns out to be true, but the signal to noise ratio is very high. The thing about him, though, is no one really knows if the few true reports were true b/c he has good sources, or, if he just sometimes gets lucky b/c he reports on every damn rumor out there.

His sources are hit or miss for sure. He was wrong in reporting the SEC had accepted A&M by a 10-2 vote, but he also broke the "A&M to SEC might have a hitchup without legal waivers" late last Tuesday night...well before any others had reported it. Same with most of the realignment talk from last summer. Lately, it's been unreliable since...it seems things are constantly shifting. Grain of salt.

He's a writer from OrangeBloods, the Texas rivals site. Granted I have a biased opinion, but every time he claims something from his "sources" it's more than likely just something to stir the pot. Grain of salt type of thing. cfb search

I think I would actually prefer the B1G over the Pac-12. More tradition in the B1G. I'd love to go back to playing Nebraska every year like the old days! Revenue-wise, I've heard the PAC would be more lucrative though.

The problem is, no matter which conference Oklahoma goes with, not much of the tradition is theirs. I understand they can't stay and be happy in the Big 12, but moving to another conference for the tradition doesn't work. We have Texas A&M most likely joining a conference full of the most intense rivalries and its own unique tradition, but none of it is theirs right now.

Oh no I didn't mean Oklahoma would necessarily just join in the traditions already set in the B1G, but OU-Nebraska have a very long-standing and storied rivalry dating back to 1912 with 86 games been played. Before the Big 12 was formed, we played for 71 straight years! So that rivalry could be rekindled. Although, I do hope we keep our rivalry game with Texas.

Part of it is b/c they also have good Academics, which I think is a lousy reason to join any athletic conference. To my knowledge, the athletic conference a school joins has never done squat to improve their academics. Nebraska was an AAU school before joining the B1G and then had their AAU credentials taken away. FSU wanted to join the AAC b/c of their academics and I don't think being in the AAC has done anything to benefit FSU academically.

The other reason is that he seems to think Oklahoma has more connections out west, which probably has a little truth to it. I'd guess that roughly 70-80% of the people I knew in my graduating class ended up working either around here or out west. Not a whole lot of them went east.

Finally, Oklahoma has been pretty successful at recruiting California given the distance and difference in conferences. He probably realizes we don't recruit real well in the B1G and feels that we will be able to build on our California recruiting successes.

Personally, I just don't want to be playing games that have kickoffs at 9:30pm CST. If that means being in a different conference, I'm cool with that. If it means that when they play us at home, they don't kickoff past 7:30CST, then I'm cool with that too. But, I barely made it through the overtime of that Mizzou/Arizona St game which ended about 1am locally and it would be a PITA if that became the norm when playing other teams in the PAC. We have families, that means little kids, and getting together for gameday watch parties just isn't practical if the games are going past midnight.

Arizona became an AAU school in 1985, 7 years after they joined the Pac-8 to become the Pac-10. Oregon became an AAU school in 1969, 5 years after the PCC was reformed as the Pac-8. And Michigan State only achieved AAU status after they joined the Big 10, albeit much later in the process. Furthermore, the AAU stripped Nebraska of membership because 1) they aren't a medical institution and 2) the AAU doesn't recognize agriculture research on the same level as other grants.

Arizona became an AAU school in 1985, 7 years after they joined the Pac-8 to become the Pac-10. Oregon became an AAU school in 1969, 5 years after the PCC was reformed as the Pac-8. And Michigan State only achieved AAU status after they joined the Big 10, albeit much later in the process. Furthermore, the AAU stripped Nebraska of membership because 1) they aren't a medical institution and 2) the AAU doesn't recognize agriculture research on the same level as other grants.

The game time thing is an overblown concern for football (non-revenue sports is a little more problematic).

But assuming a PAC16, you'd realistically only play 2 schools in the western-most (Pacific coast?) division a year. One of those would be home and the other would be away. So we're talking about one game a year and given those concerns about time zones, they'd never schedule a game that started at 930p Central and make it a mid/late afternoon kickoff Pacific time to give an evening primetime for central.

Again, I will direct your attention to the Missouri/Arizona State game that kicked off at 9:30pm CST last Friday. Last I checked Arizona was not on the west coast. If they can keep that from happening, then good. But, they didn't do a very good job last Friday and it sets a really bad precedent.